Rambling Souls

You think that you can keep me here and down

Step on my cape and than turn your back without a sound

Because you can see that I need

With all my sentiment on my sleeves

I may have lived my life until now surfing on fallen leaves

They blow with the wind sometimes far

Sometimes they fall straight to the ground

Many times I have picked up my bleeding body

And walked until I thought I was forgotten

Only to hope I’d find you before you vanished

From another quest to find out who you are

Over the golden mountains and into the esoteric wilderness

Mixed up with the runaways and the banished

Evading the pedestals and dodging the many holes of this great earth

You know we were never that different

Hiding from Despair

Secretly seeking the silent seduction of an unseen persona
I will skulk in shadows and hide in the edges of your vision
To be invisible and unheard
There I can let go and just be
Forget the ego driven disaster that awaited your appreciation
Pondered your perception
Desperately desired your reception
Awaited your notion to define me on this slippery borderline
Between sweet success and social suicide
Where I bade the incessant demons to leave my doorstep
They taunt me still and fill my mind
With regretful moments of the past
Sneak previews of what could be
All fantasies of what I will never ever really see
I could hear your whispers
You remind me of how weak I am
You remind me of how tragic I am
You remind me of how devoid I have become
So pathetic and needful I am
Will I ever smile and charm again?